Making A Wooden Barn Door

Remember to add 2 inches to your door opening so your new barn door will cover the opening.

Making a wooden barn door.

Take your 1 by 4 inches 2 5 cm 10 2 cm strips of wood and use a circular saw or handsaw to cut them to the height of your door. I built this diy hollow core door with a mainframe and then i put narrow pieces. In this video i ll show you how to build a wooden barn door for under a 100. Cut out 2 pieces of wood for each side of your door and lay them on the floor.

It s time to assemble the frame of the barn door. Measure and mark the size of your door on your plywood. Building in place is the easiest way to build barn doors. Hang the door step 11 13 before you begin measure the width of the door from the outside edges of the casing then order a hardware kit with a track twice that width.

This includes the hardware and track. I m wrapping up a project for a client an. Build the door steps 2 10. Use your saw to cut the wood to size.

Thicker wood will make the door better at keeping heat in but will also make it heavier. Screw scraps of wood to the 2x4s on both sides of the door to hold the boards together while you add the horizontal rail. This will ensure that your door is square. After checking to see that the ends of the boards are still lined up measure diagonally from opposite corners to make sure the door is square.

I worked on this project for some days i show you how i did all the process. Closing in a pole barn with custom doors. Cut list for installing a sliding door. Barn doors that swing out need to be mounted on very large and strong hinges and sliding barn doors need to be properly balanced and hung on high quality hardware in order to work properly.

What type of wood do you use to make a barn door. Once you have cut the boards to size measure the appearance board you just cut width wise so you can cut your top and bottom trim boards.